Vietnam admits deploying bloggers to support the Communist Party's policies, operates a network of nearly 1,000 "public opinion shapers". (BBC 2013)

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[–]RightousBob 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Users "socks" and "poofter" should do an AMA on this subject. I'd be interested to get the perspective of our in-house shills regarding the working conditions on a real life, working troll farm?

[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's people that aren't familiar with how different groups are seeking to influence the public opinion online so this is some interesting info coming from the BBC.

It's an article talking about the way the communist party of Vietnam uses shills to influence the public opinion for their own sake.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's nothing. Share blue employs many times more, has far superior technology to allow individuals to control hundreds of accounts, and has the direct support of social media tech giants and the media. The DNC literally performed a coup resulting in a mountain of evidence of vote fraud and Share blue effectively shaped a sufficient proportion of people's opinions to deny it, accept it and even defend it such that we literally just gave up our democracy without a fight. Possibly forever.

[–]asterias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Vietnam admits" whereas other countries won't admit...